Topic: Chillies that have grown well outside in this year's atrocious weather.

[dtw]

Only a couple of mine have done well,

Georgia flame and black hungarian.

The rest have performed badly.

Do you have any others that have grown well outdoors in the uk this year?

[ceres]

This year's Wilko cheapie Hot Cayenne has given a bumper crop so far.  They're still flowering and still have loads of unripe fruit - just hope the frost holds off a bit longer.  Will try Barnowl's way of overwintering a plant I think. 

[BAK]

dtw,

I am in Sunningdale - not far away from you.

I have grown Hot Stuff (Suttons) for the past 4 years. Ironically they seem to be on the mild side to my untutored palate.

I got 2lbs this year from 6 plants - a reasonable crop given the weather. I put the plants under 5 litre plastic bottles or cloches initially, removing them when they are bursting to get out which is usually the end of June for me.

[littlebabybird]

i hadnt considered that they would do ok outside but all 3 of you are not that far from me, so i'll
give it a go, are they going red?
lbb

[BAK]

only the odd one ever shows signs of going red and even they usually end up a brownie sort of colour when I take them out.

[ceres]

lbb, you should be fine if you get one for outdoors.  Mine have ripened up beautifully, I'll see if I can take a picture later of the ones I've got in the fridge.  They start green, go a sort of browny-black and then red.

[littlebabybird]

brilliant thats something else to try
lbb

[ceres]

Here's a pic of a few waiting to go into the chilli jam.

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[Barnowl]

So far Georgia Flame is the only non over-wintered to ripen outside

[Georgie]

I usually grow my chillies indoors.  But Trifetti got too large for the kitchen windowsill and has been outside since about June/July.  The fruits are ripening well despite little sunshine.  :)

G x

[star]

I'll bump this one as I grew Trefetti outdoors. It got big, yes. And the one chilli did ripen.........but just one :'(.

I dug it up, potted it and its now in the spare room. It has been growing slowly all winter......I pruned it hard before putting it upstairs.

So I guess now is the right time to bring it down to the kitchen and water a bit more often? Should I prune any branches that look too long or just leave it to do its thing?

[mark_h]

Its been a long time since I last logged in but a suitable topic for me to reply to.  I tried 2 varieties last year, Numex twilight and T&M 'tropical heat'.   The tropical heat is meant to have mixture of Orange Habs and Scotch Bonnets, but only orange habs appeared.

I had quite a bit of success with Numex Twilight 2 years ago with quite a lot of fruit ripening, last year(2008) hardly any ripened.   However, the orange habs were more successful which I was surprised about and quite a few ripened.

This reminds me.... I better start sowing this years chillies!